Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldier in the front line, waiting last week for another Chinese push -or perhaps for peace, he was not sure-the war in Korea was still a grim and dirty business, and his chief concerns were those of all soldiers: to stay alive, to fight as best he could, to get home as soon as he could. To strategists, after one year of fighting in Korea, the story of the "dirty little war" had already become a closely studied textbook...
...Force Three swarmed ashore at the "target" island. They measured what was left to measure, studied the effects of the blast that had been seen as far as Kwajalein, 375 miles away, made ready to conduct still more tests. Then, after two years of work and two months of grim experiment, the atom armada came home. They had exploded the largest bomb ever...
With Ste. Cunegonde as their patron, the Grey Nuns founded an asylum in Montreal's St. Henri tenement quarter in 1895. The grim, grey stone building was a haven for orphans and old people. The aged, living out their days on $25-a-month government pension checks, were lodged in bare upstairs rooms in the western side of the building; the children lived in the east wing...
...Grim Reveille...
...must rise in wrathful indignation against a [sentence] in your thumbnail sketch of V.M.I. [TIME, May 28] . . . The day does not begin officially with breakfast at 7 a.m. but with a grim reveille formation in an earlier darkness . . . Waiting until the last split second to make reveille, "old" cadets jam through the arches and leap out of first floor windows...